Quotes About Yearning

My favorite afternoon snack as a child in San Diego was a still-steaming flour tortilla purchased at the taqueria down the street from my school, and I've yearned for them ever since I moved away.

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

Love is the most elusive thing I know. Always an arm's length away, teasing me and asking me to stretch a bit more and grab it.

Obviously it is good to think 'this year has been sick' but unfortunately we're human beings so we're always trying to strive for more.

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

Everyone yearns for love, and everyone struggles for love.

I feel like I've spent a lot of time imagining home and thinking about a dream-like place, as opposed to a real place, because that's not what I was able to do, meaning go home or be home.

I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

I don't even know how it is to have a home. I feel like an orphan or something.

I had an Oscar, an Emmy, and yet I had this big hole in my soul.

I was angry because I see other kids with things that I wanted: they had good parents, they had clothes, they always had food and extra money, and I wasn't one of those kids.

There are holes in our lives that can never be filled - not really, not ever.

You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.

I think everybody can sort of relate to feeling like the outcast and feeling a bit lost and just craving somebody's attention.

My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.

We always want what we're not allowed.'20 Ovid, in offering this sage observation, was putting his finger on a mocking truth. Forbidden fruit tasted the sweetest. 'Prohibitions, trust me, only encourage bad behaviour.

En dieper dan de nacht'lijk roode stad, in tocht en vuilnisch der beschaving, op een smal perron met betegelde muuren en reclameborden, zoek ik de gelede kookers, de spooren en mechanische zuuren van een helwitte zwam: ondanks ontbuiging het geborgen gevoel, als in een schoot. Maar wie ben ik, dat ik hoopen kan. Dat ik niet word zooals den Roltrap hier: slechts bewegend door betreding, en door beweging sneller eenzaam.

It would have been nice to have had unicorns.

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.

Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.

There's no prayer like desire.